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Nijole Sabaite
The Olympic Games, or Olympics, is an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprises of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896 and were held every four years except in 1916, 1940 and 1944 due to the World Wars. The unity of the 5 continents is shown on the Olympic flag by five colorful intertwined rings of red, blue, green, yellow, and black, created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to represent at least one color of the participating country’s national flag.
Nijole Sabaite was born on August 8, 1950 and is a retired Lithuanian middle distance runner who represented the USSR. Sabaite was trained at VSS Nemunas in Vilnius. She competed mainly in the 800 metres, and won an Olympic silver medal in 1972, between Germans Hildegard Falck who won the gold and Gunhild Hoffmeister who won the bronze.
The desire to use her talents for the Glory and Honor of her God and Country propelled her in an attempt to excel at the highest level of sporting achievement to inspire future generations of her countrymen to do the same upholding the highest standards of patriotic fervor.
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